danny care

We’re finally down to our last showdown, with the winners for our Model Behavior and Man CrushShowdowns were announced earlier this week. Last year, the winner for the Sports Stud was Australia rugby player, Daniel Conn.

This year’s winner is both similar and different to last year’s and it isn’t who I thought was going to win. That being said, I’m very happy with the outcome and think he’s totally worthy of the title. Although there are only three athletes that made it to the end, there were countless hotties featured on the site in 2012 and many more to come in 2013.

We’ve featured many athletes over the past few years, but if there’s someone that we haven’t featured before that you think would be great, feel free to let us know! Also, thank you to all of the athletes for being such good “sports” with these features. Without further delay, find out who the winner is and who came second and third below.

Well, we’re now into the final stretch of the Sports Stud 2012 Showdownand we have a group of ten finalists based on your votes for you to choose from. If you haven’t voted in our Man Crush and Model Behavior finals (although I think most of you have – LOL), be sure to do so as well!

There were so many hotties all year long – I’m so glad that I actually don’t have to determine a winner… that’s your job. Any of the guys below could be the top pick so I have no idea how it’s going to turn out. As a side note, as we move into the New Year, feel free to leave suggestions in comments for athletes you’d like to see us cover in these weekly posts. I have done a few years worth of these posts so for some of the well known athletes, chances are I have covered them. That being said, share anyway because there are so many more men to tackle in 2013 ;) Happy voting!

Sports Stud Showdown Dates:
The Top 2 from each round automatically advance to the finals. Four wildcard spots will be given to the athletes who garnered the four highest vote totals from all rounds tabulated (winners excluded).

The first two rounds of our Sports Stud 2012 Showdown have wrapped up, with two new finalists being added to the final showdown. In Round 1, Lance Parker took the top spot, with who happened to be my first Sports Stud of the year in 2012. In second place was sexy volleyball player, J.P. Calderon whom you know best from Survivor. Last week, the voting for Round 2 was in full swing, with Olympic gymnast Jake Dalton taking the lead and diver David Boudia just barely making it into second ahead of some close competition.

Check out all of the Sports Studs from the third round below. Whichever two studs get the most votes will move onto the final round, kicking off a week from today. Happy voting!

Sports Stud Showdown Dates:
The Top 2 from each round automatically advance to the finals. Four wildcard spots will be given to the athletes who garnered the four highest vote totals from all rounds tabulated (winners excluded).

This week’s Sports Stud is a sexy 25-year-old rugby player from the United Kingdom named Danny Care. We first introduced you to him as part of the 2011 Rugby’s Finest Calendar ensemble, but today I wanted to focus on him specifically.

He plays for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership, primarily playing at scrum-half but he can also operate in the fly-half role. He actually just signed a new three year contract with them so he’ll be with them until at least 2016.

He first started playing rugby when he was just 6-years-old and never stopped since. He’s a bit of a bad boy and has had a few instances with the law involving alcohol or disorderly conduct, but he has cleaned up his act and even given up drinking to really commit to his career. Check out his sexy pictures below.

For the month of December, we’ve shared a few of the hottest 2011 calendars out there. From firefighters, to models, to rowers to straight guys against hate, we’ve featured a lot of sexy hunks in little or no clothing. While they were all hot, I have to say the boys in “Rugby’s Finest Hunks 2011 Calendar” blow them all out of the water. Compared to these wet dreams, all the others are fugly hookers.

Throughout the year I follow a few sports casually, but after seeing these big muscly rugby players, I really need to add the English Rugby league to my viewing schedule. The sport of rugby probably has the hottest guys in the sporting world. Just check out my selection for this week’s weekly crush, David “Wolfman” Williams as Exhibit A. No disrespect to models, but there’s just something extra appealing about a good looking guy who excels in their sport. Perhaps it’s their bodies sweating during competition or the idea of group showers. Whatever it is, athletes are super sexy. Check out the following English rugby players to prove my point.